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Quebec Wildfires: Live Fire Map

193
Active fires
1.6M
Acres
162
Under 50% contained
29
Typical air quality · worst 53 near Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu - L'Acadie
Current situation

Quebec

Elevated activity
Large fires (1K+)
90
New fires (48h)
0
Quebec currently has 193 active wildfires burning a combined 1.6 million acres. 90 of them are large incidents of 1,000+ acres. The biggest is the 284 fire at 203,062 acres.
Typical air quality across the province's 44 monitoring stations is good (AQI 29); the worst reading right now is AQI 53 (moderate) near Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu - L'Acadie.
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Bold outline: Quebec boundary. Fires outside the border are in neighboring provinces.

Evacuation status in Quebec

Quebec does not publish a live, zone-level evacuation feed yet, so we cannot confirm evacuation status here either way. During an active fire, check the official emergency links in the resources section below; that is where evacuation notices are posted first.

Is there a fire near me?

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This season vs the last decade

114% of an average year
Burning right now1.6M acres
10-year average (2016–2023, full year)1.4M acres

Fires currently burning in Quebec cover 1.6M acres. From 2016 to 2023, an average full year burned 1.4M acres here.

Active fires in Quebec

Wildfire history in Quebec

Large fires (200+ hectares) since 1990, Canadian National Fire Database.

2023
Worst year · 10.6M acres
36
Large fires / year · average
1,213
Total fires · since 1990
Acres burned by year
10.6M
5.3M
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'23
Average acres burned by month · 2009–2023
701K
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June and July account for 83% of the acreage burned in Quebec in an average year, based on large fires (200+ hectares) in Canadian federal records.

Large fires recorded by year
941871990: 33 fires19901991: 37 fires1992: 15 fires1993: 6 fires1994: 19 fires1995: 59 fires19951996: 126 fires1997: 56 fires1998: 45 fires1999: 17 fires2000: 13 fires20002001: 7 fires2002: 84 fires2003: 31 fires2004: 4 fires2005: 103 fires20052006: 33 fires2007: 68 fires2008: 1 fires2009: 26 fires2010: 33 fires20102011: 12 fires2012: 21 fires2013: 51 fires2014: 12 fires2015: 6 fires20152016: 31 fires2017: 15 fires2018: 25 fires2019: 6 fires2020: 9 fires20202021: 13 fires2022: 9 fires2023: 187 fires2023
Trend analysis

Over the last five years, Quebec averaged 2.2M acres burned and 45 fires per year. That is 217% up in acreage and 31% up in fire count versus the 1990–2018 baseline. Fire activity here is clearly intensifying.

Wildfire history near you

How close have major wildfires come to your home in Quebec? Search any US or Canadian address to see the largest fires on record nearby, with size, year, and impact, on a radius map.

Fires near a city in Quebec

MontrealQuebec CityChibougamau

Nearby provinces

Northwest Territories (198)Ontario (178)Manitoba (144)Saskatchewan (48)British Columbia (38)Yukon (26)